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Windows live mail question...
Why is the default setting for Windows Live Mail to download messages from
your pop mail while leaving a copy of your emails on your mail server? And exactly where is the setting for changing this behaviour. I need it to dowload and NOT leave a copy, just like Outlook and OE's default behaviour. Since changing all three of our XP systems to Win7 64 Home Premium I'm getting nonstop messages from my home email provider that my mail quota is full. Help would be appreciated...... |
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Windows live mail question...
Augustus wrote this, with guidance from inner voices:
Why is the default setting for Windows Live Mail to download messages from your pop mail while leaving a copy of your emails on your mail server? And exactly where is the setting for changing this behaviour. I need it to dowload and NOT leave a copy, just like Outlook and OE's default behaviour. Since changing all three of our XP systems to Win7 64 Home Premium I'm getting nonstop messages from my home email provider that my mail quota is full. Help would be appreciated...... Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom. -- Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. |
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Windows live mail question...
Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom.
Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving a copy on your pop mail server. |
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Windows live mail question...
"augustus" wrote in message news:PN_Nm.53077$Db2.23771@edtnps83... Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom. Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving a copy on your pop mail server. You can then read it on any computer at work or home or even you mobile |
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Windows live mail question...
"Trev" wrote in message
... "augustus" wrote in message news:PN_Nm.53077$Db2.23771@edtnps83... Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom. Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving a copy on your pop mail server. You can then read it on any computer at work or home or even you mobile ....until YOU decide to delete them -- (swap a mouse for a house to email) Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein |
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Windows live mail question...
Hi, Augustus.
"augustus" wrote in message news:PN_Nm.53077$Db2.23771@edtnps83... Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom. Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving a copy on your pop mail server. Many of us have multiple computers, or dual-boot on a single computer. Many of us use email kind of like a telephone and we don't expect read messages to persist longer than it takes us to read them; others - for business or personal reasons - want to keep them for hours or days or weeks - or permanently. And, especially while making the transition from OE to WM to WLM, we may need to download the same messages into different systems. We probably want one of those systems to hold our archives. If we don't "leave messages on server" for at least a little while, there will be no way easy to store them on our main (desktop?) computer if we've read them on our other (laptop) computer or on a friend's computer. Those reasons are why many of us are very happy to see "leave messages" as the default. We've seen too many wails from users who lost important messages during a transition because they forgot to change the previous default while testing their new mail application. Our standard advice for users trying to choose whether to transition to WLM from WM or OE is to use both systems side by side for a few days - but make sure both are set to leave messages, and that one of them is set to delete messages after a week or two. So long as both apps are used at least once in that time, the archives will remain complete but the server would not be clogged with mail being kept "forever". But the great thing is that the settings are optional and can be different for each of my mail servers. ;) RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 |
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